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A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church…
A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston in New-England. Delivered at Salem, 1636. : To which is prefixed, a retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism, uttered by him immediately preceding the sermon emitted. He dyed on the 23. day of December, 1652. Entering [sic] on the 68 year of his age. : [Seven lines from I Corinthians]A sermon preached by the Reverend, Mr. John Cotton, teacher of the First Church in Boston in New-England. Deliver'd at Salem, 1636. : To which is prefixed, a retraction of his former opinion concerning baptism, utter'd by him immediately preceeding the sermon emitted. He dyed on the 23. day of December, 1652. Entring [sic] on the 68 year of his age. : [Seven lines from I Corithians]
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3. He doth require of his People that they should be of a Melting frame of Spirit, in regard of all their Whorishness, whereby they have profaned His Name; they shall wail and bemoan this: and therefore it is said of them in ⟨p. 15⟩the verse before the Text, That Weeping they should go, for all the Evils that they have wrought in God's sight: And this is that which we read: Ezek. 6.9. They that escape of you shall remember me among the Nations whither they shall be carried Captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which go a whoring after their Idols: and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. This doth the Lord require of his People: but observe this withal, that He doth not require it in a way of a Legal command, but with an all-sufficient Virtue, whereby He will work in them what He doth require; so that doth He require, that they should walk holily before Him, He Himself doth also work this, for in this Everlasting Covenant, the Commandments of God are Promises; for this will I be inquired, even to do all that he doth require: Zeph. 3.12. They shall trust in the Name of the Lord. And so for the Obedience of Faith: Ezek. 36.27. I will cause you to walk in my Statutes, and you shall keep my Judgments and do them. He will make us able to do it, and willing to do it, and so to do it. And this is the true meaning of all that the Lord doth require in the Everlasting Covenant; when He doth Command He doth Promise. Doth he require seeking of Him? He will put his Spirit within us: Doth he require weeping & mourning? He will pour down a Spirit of Grace and ⟨p. 16⟩Supplication, and they shall seek him whom they have pierced, and shall mourn for him, Zeck. 12.10. So that this is the Everlasting Covenant. The Lord prepareth the heart: certain duties indeed he doth lay upon them; as to believe in his Name, to yield the obedience of Faith, and to mourn for him; and he doth convey an effectual Power to work them.